With all the fuss about drugs, rockstars and anorexia-inspiring catchphrases it's sometimes difficult to remember that Kate Moss is famous for a reason - her jaw-dropping good looks.
And it's this that is being celebrated in a collection of photographs which goes on display on Thursday in La Gallerie de L'Instant in Paris.
The exhibition almost didn't happen.
It was scheduled to take place almost three years ago in Paris' famous Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
The museum had already hosted retrospectives on Balenciaga, Madeleine Vionnet and Christian Lacroix and wanted to pay homage to the world's most recognisable supermodel.
Its Kate Moss exhibition, which promised to explore the myths surrounding the model, was scheduled to open in November 2008 but kept getting delayed because of insufficient finds.
Eventually, in April 2010, the plan was abandoned altogether.
Now the smaller, Galerie de L'Instant has put on its own version of the exhibition.
'Kate Moss by the biggest photographers' opens tomorrow.
The gallery says: 'Despite a lack of interviews and a few scandals, [Kate Moss'] career has been a success and has set an example.
'She has inspired the biggest photographers of every generation as well as contemporary artists including Lucian Freud, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor Wood...
'It is therefore only fair that we dedicate an exhibition to her, as her work with photographers has been so rich and varied.'
The pictures, which chart Kate's 20 year career, were taken by artists including Rankin, Mary McCartney, Bert Stern, Corrine Day and Bettina Rheims - who discovered the model when she was just 14.
They show Kate standing on a table surrounded by businessmen in Paris' Brasserie Lipp, being styled before stepping onto the Chloe catwalk and wearing (and removing) a red dress for Mary McCartney.
The gallery adds Kate is 'one of the most photographed people in he world, and yet she continues to fascinate and inspire...
'This exhibition is a homage, not only to her beauty, but also to her intelligence.'
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